How do judges of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.

Maine Supreme Judicial Court / Joined 1998 / Active

Donald G. Alexander

Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court

Donald G. Alexander is a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, serving since 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1998 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Maine Supreme Judicial Court	–	–

Education

Bowdoin College
University of Chicago

Judicial Record

In our data, Alexander authored 357 published opinions for the court (1998–2019), plus 67 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: Burdzel v. Sobus (259 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 406 of these were attributed to Alexander by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2000	Burdzel v. Sobus†	2000 ME 84	259
2006	Saunders v. Tisher· Dissent†	2006 ME 94	198
2000	Rideout v. Riendeau· Dissent†	2000 ME 198	170
2004	Stanley v. Hancock County Commissioners· Dissent†	2004 ME 157	121
2001	In Re Scott S.· Dissent†	2001 ME 114	106
2013	Estate of Patrick P. Smith v. Cumberland County†	2013 ME 13	100
2009	Anderson v. Maine Public Employees Retirement System	2009 ME 134	88
2011	CACH, LLC v. Kulas	2011 ME 70	84
2010	F.R. Carroll, Inc. v. TD Bank, N.A.	2010 ME 115	84
2005	State v. Weinschenk†	2005 ME 28	81
2010	Aydelott v. City of Portland	2010 ME 25	76
2005	Fortin v. Roman Catholic Bishop of Portland· Concurrence†	2005 ME 57	74
2009	Blue Star Corp. v. CKF PROPERTIES, LLC	2009 ME 101	72
2001	Mastriano v. Blyer†	2001 ME 134	72
2014	Estate of Michael Lewis v. Concord General Mutual Insurance Company· Dissent†	2014 ME 34	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 457 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is gubernatorial appointment.
Which court is Donald G. Alexander on?: Donald G. Alexander is a Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.

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27 years on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).